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Abstract for the forthcoming paper 'Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good'. Pre-print coming soon. "Rather than taking AI as a central focus, this paper treats it as diagnostic of deeper contradictions...." danmcquillan.org/beyond_ai_ab...

Looking forward to a book titled 'Destructively Scan This Book!' in homage to Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_T...

Abstract for the forthcoming paper 'Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good'. Pre-print coming soon. "Rather than taking AI as a central focus, this paper treats it as diagnostic of deeper contradictions...." danmcquillan.org/beyond_ai_ab...

Literally any excuse 🤦‍♀️ Systematically unsystematic thinking

This seems more obviously skewed to me - using a tech on slavery archives that is itself an intensification of racialised oppression in multiple dimensions...

More relevantly, there are constrained positivist contexts that have nothing to say about AI as a technopolitical or ethical project

There's a lot to be said about models in the lineage of Alphafold, not least that they are an extremely narrow application that has been used to legitimise a society-wide transformation, but one specific is that they are not 'just' AI but include biophysical modeling and constraints

which ethical niche uses are you thinking of?

Where is the university ethics committee that has stepped up to the plate and said "There's no ethical way to use Generative AI"?

Seems like agentic AI's capacity to really f*ck things up isn't limited to deleting your personal $HOME directory.

FAccT and its predecessor FAT/ML are very poorly acronymed gatherings, as the point of their algorithmic objects of study is, in a specific technopolitical sense, to drain Fairness, distance Accountability and misdirect Transparency.

Ron Salaj has posted his chapter on 'The New Spirit of Education and the Techno-Politics of AI' which goes from a genealogy of machines-for-learning to an analysis of AI Ed in terms of 'seriality' (Sarte) and 'interpassivity ' (Pfaller) meaningmaking.it/new-chapter-...

nice, thanks 🙏

you are the lawyer for the Proseccotion 👩‍⚖️

Some rando trying to sell AI grading systems made the mistake of cold emailing me at work and I had prosecco for dinner so I replied with a link to @danmcquillan.bsky.social's "the role of the university is to resist AI" 🤷‍♀️

Papier-mâché Mussolini

Perhaps the mistake was talking about the 'digital commons' as if a separate, unsullied space could host the social relations we were long robbed of, when we should have been talking about 'commons digital'; real common ownership of the infrastructure lock, stock and barrel?

Oxford showing its raggedy arse

#defendexeteruni c.org/sffZcfYxMw

Advocating for "AI sovereignty" is another way to call for a war economy.